Election 2012: Degrees of Dissatisfaction

Normally, the search for a Republican candidate for President is a search for a candidate who actually agrees with the principles of limited government, individual rights, private property and capitalism. This year, the search is for someone who actually even agrees...

Why Isn't Freedom Popular?

Why is political freedom so unpopular? Throughout human history, freedom has been the exception and not the norm. The ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, free by the standards of their time, ultimately collapsed because of the unwillingness of people to accept...

Obama The Egalitarian: Equal Misery For All

Americans benefit from the freest and most accessible medical care in the world.Gradually over the last fifty years, however, that care has become increasingly hampered by government controls. The last traces of free-market medicine could soon be gone–replaced...

Fame and Infamy in Chicago

We’re stuck here in Chicago as I’m writing this, stranded for a few extra days because the CNN weather map yesterday projected some scary red tornado splotches scattered along the Capitol Limited tracks we take to Pittsburgh. It looked even worse on...

Americans Hooked on Medicare Crack

“We are facing a time when we have a group of people led by President Obama, who believes that America’s greatness lies in its government, not its people. They want to hook you. They don’t want to free you.” (former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum,...

Fed Stimulus Leads to Stagflation

??Despite the full onslaught of Keynesian economic policies, including the injection of unheard of sums of printed money into the financial system, state sanctioned accounting tricks, negative real interest rates, massive deficit spending, and debasement of the U.S....